Chapter 111: The Scholars

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Shucheng Stone Pavilion buried in the mountain and sandwiched stones for four days! Inaction is even more down.

Most of Lujiang was already in Lu Bu's hands, but no one in Lu Bu's army was slacking off.

Although Lujiang is good, it can't afford to raise nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses of Lu Bu's army! There are less than 20,000 households in Lujiang County, and the population is only more than 150,000, which is still the reason why Lujiang is far away from the war in the Central Plains.

150,000 people raising 40,000 soldiers and horses? This is so exhaustive, and the grain territory and population are all heavy problems.

You can't let Lu Bu dismiss the tribe! What's the difference between that and death?

"How much grain and grass is left in Gongtai Lujiang!" Lu Bu looked at the large pile of cases on the table and frowned.

"There are less than 7,000 stones of grain and grass left!" Chen Gong shook his head, seven thousand stones of grain and grass seemed to be a lot, but in fact, there were not much, if it was just used carefully by raising soldiers, it would only be enough for twenty days.

If there is a war, these 7,000 stones will not be enough at all.

"Where's the surrounding fields?" Sun Ce not only took away the soldiers and horses in Wancheng, but also transported all the grain and grass, so he didn't get much grain and grass when he captured Wancheng.

"Fields?" Chen Gong smiled bitterly, "Lord, it's only the beginning of summer, if you want to have new food, let alone three months!" ”

"Three months?" Lu Bujun can't hold out for even a month now.

"Can you buy it on the market?!" It will have to survive these months until the new grain arrives.

"Lord, there is grain in this market, but it is ridiculously expensive!" Chen Gong was very helpless, grain and grass were originally gold in troubled times, but it couldn't be so expensive, it was so expensive that half a catty of rice cost 100 yuan, and a gold could only buy less than one stone.

Lu Bujun has a big shortage, not to mention tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, if you buy them all. Even if you sell Lu Bujun, you can't afford it.

"In the hands of the people! Can you levy food?! ”

"There is no surplus grain in the hands of the people" After all, it is not the time when new grain comes out, and it is impossible for the people to have surplus grain in their hands.

"Borrow it from those noble clans!" Lu Bu said.

"My lord, if you can borrow the Tao, you don't need to be so troublesome!" The rice and grain shops in Anhui City were basically owned by these wealthy families, but when Chen Gong went to borrow grain, he was shirked. Either you have no food, or you just borrow a little.

You can't say that people don't borrow, a family produces a few stones, dozens of stones, if it's just an ordinary family, this is already a family or even a few families to store grain. But this is the Warriors! Scholars of 10,000 acres of fertile land. Don't you want to borrow it? That's all! They are all crying poor, which makes you embarrassed to say something.

Especially the Zhou family, the Chen family and the Liu family, which were mainly closed, only sent an outer room to receive the Chen Palace. Chen Gong is not too much, because if you want to govern a place, you must get the support of the local soldiers.

"Humph!" Lu Bu slapped the table suddenly: "Don't borrow it, do you?" Public station. You sent someone to send a letter to the patriarch of the wealthy family of the Lujiang Clan, saying that you were going to feast on them in this Taishou Mansion! ”

"Your lord?!" Chen Gong was a little worried, for fear that Lu Bu would cut them all down if he was unhappy, then the problem would be big, the Han Dynasty ruled the world with the scholar clan, and Chen Gong also wanted to kill all these scholars, which would really offend people. At the very least, this Lujiang River will fall into turmoil.

"Don't worry, I have my own measure!"

Wancheng Zhou family.

In the hall, a middle-aged man was pacing around, holding a famous thorn in his hand, which was Lu Bu's invitation.

There were also a few people sitting on the seats next to them.

"What is Lu Bu's intention in inviting me to wait?!" The middle-aged man is the head of the Liu family, the largest scholar clan in this Anhui city, Liu Xuan.

This Liu family is really a member of the Han family, not a Han family relative like Liu Bei and Liu Mang, who messed with relatives, but a real lineage passed down by Liu Zhen, the 6th Marquis of Zhongshan after King Jing!

The Liu family has been rooted in Lujiang since Liu Zhen, and it is a hegemon in Anhui City, and there were originally 6 families to compete with him, but the 6 families were indecisive after the death of 6 Kang.

Therefore, the big and small scholars in Anhui City are all headed by the Liu family.

"Brother Liu, what can the three surnamed slaves have, don't they just want me to wait for him to give him grain and grass! It is difficult for a lost dog to last. We must not give him food and grass, so that he can sit firmly in the Lujiang River! A seated patriarch stood up and said.

"That is, Lu Bu and a horse, although he won Wancheng, but it will not last long, if we give him grain and grass. He was defeated, where are we going to reason" is another patriarch of a wealthy family.

"Lu Bu has more than 30,000 troops, can he really not hold Anhui City?!" Some scholars are a little hesitant, the Han Dynasty is basically occupied by the scholars, they don't fight the world, but they are investing everywhere, some are disdainful of Lu Bu, and some are naturally interested in Lu Bu.

Sponsor the princes of one side, if the princes can achieve hegemony, they are from the dragon's work, and the family can also be promoted, if the princes can't succeed, it is just a loss of family property, and the foundation of the scholar clan remains unchanged.

"Don't you see, Yanzhou Zhang Miao, Xuzhou Cao Bao?!" Someone sneered, "Chen Liu, Zhang Miao, the Zhang family is much bigger than all the family affairs here, and the Pengcheng Cao family is even more of a tyrant in Xuzhou!" But so what, Zhang Miao died, and the Zhang family was uprooted by Cao Cao. The former Yanzhou clan could only be low-key in the end.

And the Cao family is even more miserable, I thought that my daughter marrying Lu Bu would make the Cao family more stable in Xuzhou, who would have thought that Lu Bu made too many enemies, and in the end, not only was Cao Mengde pulled out a layer of skin, but also Liu Bei was not lightly harmed, and the Cao family disappeared directly in the forest of scholars.

With these two families as an example, who else would dare to fund Lu Bu.

"But if he doesn't give Lu Bu military rations, what if he jumps off the wall in a hurry!" Some people are worried, after all, the current owner of Wancheng is Lu Bu, and it is not a good thing to provoke Lu Bu.

"Does he dare?!" This is the voice of the head of the Chen family, "Lu Bu killed my brother, he didn't share the hatred of the sky, my ugly words are put in front, whoever supports Lu Bu will not be able to get along with my Chen family!" "The person who spoke was called Chen Hui, and his brother was Chen Rui who was strangled to death by Lu Bu, and the Chen family was indispensable to Chen Rui's contributions.

"What the head of the Chen family said is very true! If he dares to jump over the wall in a hurry, it is not only us who will be offended, but the entire Jiangdong Shi clan and even the entire world Shi clan! At that time, there will be no place for Lu Fengxian in this world! "It's easy to kill the Warrior Clan, but if you kill a group, it's really a big trouble, and even those big Warrior Clans are interconnected.

For example, the original 6 families in Anhui City, although Sun Ce seized Wancheng and forced 6 Kang to death, and killed more than 100 people from the 6 clans, it stands to reason that the 6 families should no longer be a threat to Sun Ce.

But in the end, Sun Quan took the throne and still used 6 families to reuse 6 Xun to compensate for it.

Why? Because these scholars broke their bones and tendons, I can't say that among the heads of the families present, some of them have wives of 6 clans.

I can't say that these people's daughters, so the sisters married 6 families as wives and concubines.

"And it's not like we're not going to give military rations!" forced Lu Bu to the point of survival, it is really possible to kill so that he will not offend the scholar clan that is a matter of the future, first fill his stomach and say, "A few stones for a family, dozens of stones at most, let his Lu Bujun not die of hunger, nor can he eat enough, this is the right way!" ”

The patriarchs nodded one after another.

"Brother Zhou, what do you think!" The head of the Liu family set his eyes on the head of the Zhou family, who was drinking tea and was silent.

The head of the Zhou family looked at everyone's eyes, put down the teacup, and was very indifferent: "I'll just say one word!" I wrote from my brother that they have hit Xiakou, and the whole Jiangxia is going down on the same day, and it depends on you how to do this! ”

The words of the head of the Zhou family made the major patriarchs below in an uproar, and everyone knew who the younger brother of the head of the Zhou family was, so they believed his information.

Jiangxia is going to be defeated, and the days before Anhui City is recovered are still long! Sun Ce's strength has all been seen by them, if they were still lucky and ready to take advantage of opportunism, then now they have a clear purpose, and they must not give Lu Bujun food and grass.

Otherwise, when Sun Ce returns to the army, these opportunists will really be liquidated.

"Good!" As the leader, the head of the Liu family stood up, "Everyone, at the banquet in the evening, we should advance and retreat together!" ”

"Advance and retreat together!"

Night is slowly falling, and a war without gunpowder in Anhui is about to begin!